Memoirs by Tennessee Williams

By Tennessee Williams

Contributor note: John Waters (Introduction)Publish 12 months note: First released in 1995
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When Memoirs was once first released in 1975, it created rather a lot of turbulence within the mediathough lengthy self-identified as a homosexual guy, Williams' candor approximately his love existence, sexual encounters, and drug use used to be came across stunning in and of itself, and such revelations by way of America's maximum dwelling playwright have been known as "a uncooked reveal of non-public life" by means of The big apple occasions ebook Review. because it seems, thirty years later, Williams' glance again at his lifestyles isn't particularly so scandalous because it as soon as appeared; he remembers his formative years in Mississippi and St. Louis, his lengthy fight as a "starving artist," the "overnight" luck of The Glass Menagerie in 1945, the demise of his long-time spouse Frank Merlo in 1962, and his confinement to a psychiatric ward in 1969 and next restoration from alcohol and drug habit, all with an identical directness, compassion, and perception that epitomize his plays.

And, in fact, Memoirs is stuffed with Williams' notable acquaintances from the worlds of level, display, and literature as heoften hilariously, occasionally fondly, occasionally notremembers them: Laurette Taylor, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, Vivian Leigh, Carson McCullers, Anna Magnani, Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, and Tallulah Bankhead to call a number of. And now movie director John Waters, good conversant in surprising the yankee public, has written an creation that provides a few standpoint at the a variety of reactions to Tennessee's Memoirs, whereas additionally paying tribute to a fellow artist who encouraged many along with his integrity and persistence.

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